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The Coin of Carthage

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The Coin of Carthage

Written by: Bryher
Narrated by: Nadia May
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 The war that began in 218 B.C. with Hannibal's march across the Alps is one of the familiar stories of history, but its details are little known. A struggle between an emerging barbarian power and an old culture, it pitted a Roman army of mostly farmers against the highly trained officers of Carthage. Hannibal's empire, founded on her control of the sea, would lose her fight against the Romans' new methods of naval warfare. Only through the wit of their beloved leader would the Carthaginians recover economically from the war, but internal strife would drive Hannibal to exile and eventually to suicide.

Brilliantly evoking the world of the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War, Bryher creates a common man's view of the greatest struggle in which ancient Rome engaged through the lives of two Greek traders.

©1963 Norman Holmes Pearsons (P)1996 Blackstone Audio Inc. Historical Fiction
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"The thick dust of history and change that hides the people of the Roman Empire from us, acts for Bryher like a dark tunnel intensifying the brilliant scene beyond." (Christian Science Monitor)

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